isolated

[I·so*la`ted]

Placed or standing alone; detached; separated from others.

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Placed or standing alone; detached; separated from others.

Adjective S.
remote and separate physically or socially; "existed over the centuries as a world apart"; "preserved because they inhabited a place apart"- W.H.Hudson; "tiny isolated villages remote from centers of civilization"; "an obscure village"

Adjective S.
not close together in time; "isolated instances of rebellion"; "scattered fire"; "a stray bullet grazed his thigh"

Adjective S.
under forced isolation especially for health reasons; "a quarantined animal"; "isolated patients"

Adjective S.
being or feeling set or kept apart from others; "she felt detached from the group"; "could not remain the isolated figure he had been"- Sherwood Anderson; "thought of herself as alone and separated from the others"; "had a set-apart feeling"

Adjective S.
marked by separation of or from usually contiguous elements; "little isolated worlds, as abruptly disjunct and unexpected as a palm-shaded well in the Sahara"- Scientific Monthly

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Adjective S.
cut off or left behind; "an isolated pawn"; "several stranded fish in a tide pool"; "travelers marooned by the blizzard"


imp. & p. p.
of Isolate

a.
Placed or standing alone; detached; separated from others.


Isolated

I"so*la`ted , a. Placed or standing alone; detached; separated from others. Isolated point of a curve. (Geom.) See Acnode.

Placed or standing alone; detached; separated from others.

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Usage Examples

Music is amazing. There's some metaphysical comfort where it allows you to be isolated and alone while telling you that you are not alone... truly, the only cure for sadness is to share it with someone else.

As far as loneliness, I feel Los Angeles and its layout, having to drive everywhere - it is a lonely place. It's an isolated city in that respect because you're driving to places alone listening to the radio.

I can work myself up into a fearful, paralyzing state of mind that can last for days, weeks even months where I feel mad, totally isolated and alone, overwhelmed and completely out of control.

I love working with a cast and a group of people every day, which is different than recording because you're usually pretty isolated and alone. They serve as a good balance for each other.

An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.

By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.

Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist.

Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue.

Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks they are the summits of ranges.

Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.

I have this pet thing about how global communications are moving so fast now, throwing information at you, making everything available to you, and yet I feel it's leaving us more and more isolated.

It's much easier to write when you're sad. But you can end up isolated and depressed because you almost need to put yourself in that situation to have that angst to write from.

Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated - like I didn't have a community of artists.

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